If you have any queries please feel free to contact us by phone or through our contact form.
Opening Times
Spring Opening Times:
Monday: 08:30 – 15:30
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday-Sunday: 08:30 – 15:30
Visitors may enter the archaeological site up to 20 minutes before closing time.
Public holidays:
1 January: Closed
25 March: Closed
25-26 December: Closed
Tickets
Full price: €4
Concessions: €2
Free Admission Days:
6 March – Melina Mercouri Day
18 April – International Monuments and Sites Day
18 May – International Museum Day
The last weekend in September each year (European Cultural Heritage Days)
28 October (National Holiday)
The first Sunday of every month from 1 November to 31 March
Concessions
For information on free and reduced admission to archaeological sites, monuments and museums belonging to the State, please click here.
HOW TO GET HERE
By car: From the Chania – Rethymno national highway, take the exit to the village of Megala Chorafia and follow the signs to Aptera.
Persons with disabilities
Toilets. Information sign for the visually impaired in the Theatre.
Topographical plan of Aptera:
1. Vaulted cistern, 2. Three-aisled vaulted cistern, 3. Two-room temple (5th c. BC), 4. Stoa stylobate, 5. Monastery of St John the Theologian, 6. Roman public building, 7-8. Roman baths, 9. Theatre and rectilinear theatre, 10. Roman house with peristyle, 11. German occupation pillboxes 12. Ancient road and heroon, 13. Ancient fortifications, 14. West Cemetery, 15. Modern village of Plakalona, 16. Koules or Subashi Fortress, 17. East gate or ‘Sideroporti’, 18. Old stone- paved path, 19. Main gate, 20. Temple of Demeter and Persephone, 21. Temple of Dionysus, 22. Southeast gate and cemetery.
Contact Us
Address
Τ: 2825033425 & 2821044418
